Richard Kearney's Anatheistic Wager

Matthew Clemente holds the position of Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Boston College. He is an Adjunct Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at Newbury College (Massachusetts) and is the author of Out of the Storm: A Novella.Chris Doude van Troostwijk is Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Luxemburg School of Religion and Society (Luxembourg), and Affiliated Researcher and Lecturer at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Strasbourg (France).

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Risk of the Wager (Chris Doude van Troostwijk and Matthew Clemente)Part I: Conversations after God1. Theism, Atheism, Anatheism (James Wood and Richard Kearney)2. A Conversation after God (Chris Doude van Troostwijk and Richard Kearney)3. Mysticism and Anatheism: The Case of Teresa (Julia Kristeva and Richard Kearney)4. Anatheist Exchange: Returning to the Body after the Flesh (Emmanuel Falque and Richard Kearney)Part II: At the Limits of Theology5. The Anatheistic Wager: faith after Faith (Brian Treanor)6. Archē and Eschaton: Kearney and Desmond on God (Richard Colledge)7. Is it Possible to be a Reformed Anatheist? (Helgard Pretorius)8. Anatheism and Inter-religious Hospitality: Reflections from a Catholic Comparative Theologian (Marianne Moyaert)9. Buddhist Anatheism (Joseph O'Leary)10. The Wager that Wasn't: An Education in Shady Chances (L. Callid Keefe-Perry)Part III: Poetics of the Sacred11. Recognition and Hospitality: Coming Back to the Odysseus's Coming Home (Pierre Drouot, trans. Sarah Horton)12. The Twofold Face of God: an Anatheist Reading of the Sacrifice of Abraham (Jacob Rogozinski)13. The Apparent God: Biblical Poetics and the End of Time (Theo Hettema)14. Kearney's Other and the Anatheist Shadow (Patrick Burke)15. Trauma, Resurrection, and the Anatheistic Wager (Shelley Rambo)Epilogue: From Wager to Art and Back Again (Chris Doude van Troostwijk and Matthew Clemente)BibliographyIndex

"These fifteen essays provide thoughtful engagement with Richard Kearney's work that deepens our understanding of anatheism and offers a great addition to continental philosophy of religion. "—Reading Religion"Recommended."—Choice"Highlights and interacts with the important and fruitful work of Richard Kearney, especially in light of his most recent work on anatheism."—Christina M. Gschwandtner, author of, Degrees of Givenness